Plant Silybum marianum (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Milk Thistle; Lady's Thistle

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-XIII	0	Root	not available	12.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYCHRISTIN	1	Fruit	7000.0	147500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYCHRISTIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYCHRISTIN	1	Seed	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYDIANIN	1	Fruit	100.0	21300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYDIANIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYDIANIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYHERMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYHERMIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMARIN	16	Fruit	7000.0	45000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMARIN	16	Seed	7000.0	60000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMONIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMONIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed Oil	not available	178000.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN	17	Fruit	100.0	8000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN	17	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Differentiator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	9	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue	1	Wealth of India.
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor	4	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Fungistat	1	Weidenborner, M., Hindorf, H., Jha, H.C., and Tsotsonos, P. 1989. Antifungal Activity of Flavonoids Against Storage Fungi of the Genus Aspergillus. Phytochemistry. 29(4): 1103-1105.